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Beneath a Scarlet Sky: a Palos Verdes Public Library Adventure featuring NYT bestselling author Mark Sullivan
About the Live, In-Person, Adventure
Calling all book lovers, and library enthusiasts!
Join New York Times bestselling author Mark Sullivan for an inspiring community reading event. Listen to this accomplished author’s book talk where he will share insights from his creative process as well as the inside scoop on his novel, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, an epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.
This special event is proudly presented by the Palos Verdes Library District and promises to be a valuable experience for anyone with a story to tell.
Registration
This event is FREE and open to the public, but seating is limited. For questions about the event, please contact the Palos Verdes Public Library.
Pre-order your book(s) below to be delivered to you at the event for signing. Books will also be available for purchase and signing at the event.
About the Authors and Book
Mark Sullivan is a New York Times bestselling author with 18 novels, including the #1 New York Times bestselling Private series, which he writes with James Patterson. Mark has received numerous awards for his writing, and his works have been named a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year.
He grew up in Medfield, Massachusetts, and graduated from Hamilton College with a BA in English before working as a volunteer in the Peace Corps in Niger, West Africa. Upon his return to the United States, he earned a graduate degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and began a career in investigative journalism.
USA Today bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky follows Pino Lella who wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager―obsessed with music, food, and girls―but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.
In an attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier―a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.
Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.
About the Palos Verdes Library
The mission of the Palos Verdes Public Library is:
“We connect. We inspire. We transform. Together.”
